Park Pobedy , translated as "Victory Park", is a station on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
of the
MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
. At 84 metres underground, it is the deepest station in Moscow. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps. The ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes.
Park Pobedy is actually a
cross-platform complexA cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines in a metro system. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not commonly so named...
with two separate, parallel platforms, though only the inner pair of tracks is presently used.
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Park Pobedy , translated as "Victory Park", is a station on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
of the
MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
. At 84 metres underground, it is the deepest station in Moscow. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps. The ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes.
Park Pobedy is actually a
cross-platform complexA cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines in a metro system. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not commonly so named...
with two separate, parallel platforms, though only the inner pair of tracks is presently used. When the construction was begun in 1986, plans called for this to be a transfer to the future
Solntsevo-MitischenskayaSolntsevskaya Line is a future Moscow Metro line that will see the expansion of the metro to the Solntsevo District in Moscow.-First project - radius:...
and the
Mitino-ButovskayaThe Strogino Mitino extension also known as the Strogino-Mition Line is one of the largest projects that Moscow Metro is currently embarked upon in the lengthening of the system and to serve the North-western Moscow Districts of Strogino and Mitino....
Chordial lines
http://www.metro.ru/map/1989/metro.ru-1989map-big3.gif. The former were to use the two halls as a transfer to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya whilst the latter would have a third perpendicular station. However the 1990s financial crises ended the Chordial projects and instead the
Strogino-Mitino extensionThe Strogino Mitino extension also known as the Strogino-Mition Line is one of the largest projects that Moscow Metro is currently embarked upon in the lengthening of the system and to serve the North-western Moscow Districts of Strogino and Mitino....
passed via Park Pobedy when opened in 2003 (2008). The second set of tracks will be used by the
Solntsevskaya LineSolntsevskaya Line is a future Moscow Metro line that will see the expansion of the metro to the Solntsevo District in Moscow.-First project - radius:...
when that is completed.
Trains arriving from
KievskayaKiyevskaya , named for the nearby Kiyevsky Rail Terminal, is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1953, it is lavishly decorated in the quasi-baroque style that predominated in the early 1950s...
stop at the northern platform to drop off passengers before going into reversal sidings and coming back to the southern platform to pick up passengers for the trip back. This is the only Metro station where all passengers board and exit trains in different locations. A further complication: only the southern (inbound) platform has an entrance vestibule, so passengers arriving at the outbound platform must change platforms before exiting.
The two platforms work of architects Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov are of identical design but have opposite colour schemes, which creates a striking effect. The pylons of the outbound platform are faced with red marble on the transverse faces and pale grey marble on the longitudinal faces. The inbound platform is exactly the reverse. The station is adorned with two large enameled panels by
Zurab TsereteliZurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli is a controversial Georgian painter, sculptor and architect who holds the office of President of the Russian Academy of Arts.- Life :...
depicting the Patriotic War of 1812 (at the end of the inbound platform) and the Great Patriotic War (on the outbound platform)..
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